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Tipping is bad culture because we as customers should not need to directly subsidize the employees paychecks. There is too much variability in that. I’ve worked in restaurants where there is a slow day. I’ve seen servers on busy nights leave with $10 in tips because tables just refuse to tip anyone.

The restaurant should raise their prices and pay all employees a livable wage regardless of position. It’s not about being bad at math. It’s about some people not wanting to tip and the only one getting fucked over is the person on the very bottom with no control. It’s about that same person having to spend 8 hours on a slow Wednesday morning with maybe 2 customers all day just not getting the tips to feed their family. It shouldn’t matter how many customers a server gets. They should get paid for the hours worked, not the customers served

I’m hoping that changes. People were expecting PA to swing heavy red in the mid terms and it didn’t. It was very close. I’m hoping that mean in the general we can get a strong blue turn out.

Pretty sure more liberals know Biden is far from liberal. He’s center at best but even he probably leans right on a global scale.

As an American I can say that the overwhelming majority of people don’t have an interest in this specific event. Yes, there are those that support one side or the other. Yes there are some protests. But most people simply don’t care.

What most people want is for the US to stay out of the Middle East. It feels like we just left. It was one of the first things to happen during the Biden administration. It’s been less than 4 years. Now we’re sending troops back over. Sure, it’s just medical support, for now. But it just feels like we’re getting back into the war we just left.

It’s not the same war. It’s an entirely different war on every aspect. But with our coverage and everything it feels like it’s a continuation of the same conflict. Americans don’t want involved. And with ties to Israel the easiest way to keep out of it is to broker peace between both countries.

Unfortunately Americans rarely get what they want

To protect us from scams they made it easier than ever to set up a scam!

Just plug your victims photo into this website and get every other photo they’ve ever posted!

Stealing a car is closer to running from police though. Usually a car is stolen to get away from another crime, not just “I want this car really badly”. Most criminals steal cars and ditch them within a couple hours. Police chasing is whats making them speed and act dangerously. No police chase means no speeding in 90% of cases because they want to be inconspicuous.

Every form of production will have defects. The goal of perfecting production is one to be sought, but never achieved. We should always try to make food production more efficient with less loss, but there will always be loss, and always be waste.

Even new means of production like lab grown beef can have waste and loss in batches that don’t “grow” properly because they didn’t mix hormones correctly or whatever. I actually don’t know how the science behind that works, but I do know it’s a process. And where there’s a process there’s room for error. That’s where we get loss from.

We’ll never make something fool proof. Perhaps lab grown meats will be the most efficient form of product in that they have the lowest loss and production can be tweaked fairly quickly so there’s not a lot of loss and ramped up for shipments to areas with food shortages. Honestly, lab grown in my opinion has the best chances of being a major breakthrough but it’s still too early to be sure.

He did it because teenage girls wouldn’t send him nudes… disgusting

I think a government shutdown should trigger a special election where every single person seat is up for re-election. We could argue that if the house passes and the senate does not then the senate needs re-elected not the house. Or if the house fails to propose the senate can remain. But if they can’t do their job then they should lose it. If I told my boss I lied on my resume and don’t know how to use spreadsheets I’d be fired in a heartbeat.

My point wasn’t necessarily disagreeing, just pointing out that it happens in both the house and senate. We’re boned right now and the government will shut down. And with their crying I feel like it’s gonna be a long one. Passing in the house ain’t enough. The senate is gonna get fucky with it all too.

On the flip side I was watching CSPAN last night watching the house floor as they pushed all these amendments through. Boebert was soooo worried about putting in provisioning blocking the DHS from putting out a mask mandate ever again.

There were over 60 amendments last night. I didn’t watch them all so idk what all of them were but if even a few were like that, completely irrelevant to the funding bill, then they’re still trying to waste all our time.

I can answer yes to all of these questions but still use a spreadsheet. I understand your point, but I feel even with these the line is still gray.

I just checked and my largest spreadsheet currently has 14,300 lines across 12 tabs. Each tab contains the same information just pulled from a separate form. So each tab is linked to a form to update automatically when someone submits a new response. We then process these responses periodically throughout the day. Finished responses are color coded so a ton of formatting. Also 7+ people interacting with it daily.

Then we have a data team that aggregates the information weekly through a script that sends them a .csv with the aggregate data.

The spreadsheet (and subsequent forms) are updated twice a year. It was updated in June and will be updated again in December. It’s at 14k now and will continue to grow. We’ve been doing this through a few iterations and do not run into performance issues.

Stars can appear red or blue depending on the direction they are traveling. It has to do with the frequency of light they put out. As they move away the frequency gets lower, which we interpret as red. As they get closer the frequency gets faster which we interpret as blue.

I am not an astronomer or even a casual stargazer. I took a single class in Astronomy in college and this was a neat fact I picked up. I remember next to nothing else from the class other than the fact that you can fit every planet between the earth and moon.

Not necessarily. You can get an ID from the DMV that doesn’t grant you a drivers license, but the drivers license servers exactly the same purpose and allows you to drive, something 90% of the population want. So drivers license obviously is extremely more popular but you can get a plastic ID card similar to it from the DMV.

https://www.dmv.pa.gov/REALID/Pages/REAL-ID-Images.aspx

On one side I have seen where he’s continued negotiations with them to help them resolve issues without a strike which is pretty beneficial.

On the other hand, if that’s not as good as it looks, then this could show that he realized he fucked up not letting the rail workers strike. If he’s going this hard on other strikes and supporting unions it may be to garner support for re-election. Even if it’s only for his own gain, being heavily pro union is a win for the people.

I wonder what this will actually look like. I changed my address last week on my license and I already got the option to update my voter registration with it

Just bought one recently. We walked in and the guy immediately started showing us ones for as low as $200. I asked what the difference was between those and the display models and he started showing us some of the floor models. We really didn’t feel much difference between any of them. The ones leaning up were absolutely not worth it and uncomfortable but we went with a $1k hybrid because it felt the same as a $5k premium Stearns and Foster. We got a Sleepy with a medium stiffness. It’s a combination of memory foam and springs. It helped my back pain and I got the best night sleep in years the day we got it.

I’m not completely sold. I’m going to do some math, but full disclaimer, I am using national averages and recommendations so mileage will vary.

That being said, $20k/ year comes down to roughly $9.62/hr to send our kids to daycare.

So let’s figure out an estimate of what it should cost. First we need the salaries of the employees. Average wage for daycare staff in the US is $11.26/hr. Now we need to find how much each kid pays to their wage. Recommended staffing levels say a maximum of 6 kids per adult. Every daycare I know is understaffed so we’re being generous with 6:1. So $11.26/hr divided by 6 children is $1.88 per child per hour.

Now there are other expenses. So on average your employees wages are 15-30% of your revenue. Note, there was no guideline for childcare, this is a general business guideline.

So we have a range. That $1.88 needs to be 15-30% of what that child costs to send. $1.88 divided by 0.15 is $12.53 and $1.88 divided by 0.3 is $6.26.

Now, I live in a really awful place with a lot of corruption. I don’t have much faith in much of the national averages. In fact during my research the national average cost is only $14k but the $20k is an actual value of what me and my wife pay at one of the cheapest daycares in the area. It’s also a poor city. Most of the people I know make under $10/hr. Many make minimum wage which is currently only $7.25/hr. I’d wager more heavily on the $8-$8.50 range for employees which makes our final cost range $4.40 to $9.50 which means best case we are still paying slightly over what we should expect.

Maybe I’m being overly pessimistic since my city constantly ranks as one of the worst places to live in the country but I think childcare is just another division run by a bunch of for profit companies trying to squeeze everything they can and screw over as many people as possible.

It’s too fucking expensive to be reasonable. $20k a year for fucking childcare. That’s almost $10/hr wage. Tons of jobs around here don’t even make that much. Realistically you need to make even more because there’s taxes coming out of the $10/hr. Anything less and you’re better off just not working at all. Then you need to calculate your bills. If you need to pay rent, utilities, gas, car payment, etc you need to be making $25-$30/hr to get by. Realistically a single mother isn’t making it on her own and it’s disgusting.

Not to mention that $20k doesn’t get you jack shit. We still need to supply food, diapers, drinks, and even a fucking pack and play for her to nap in as well as a fucking high chair. All that $20k gets you is a couple people sitting in a room with 20 other kids letting them all do their own thing.

Fuck childcare

Actually SSN’s ARE supposed to be used that way now. It wasn’t intended when the system started because it was difficult to get everyone one. But once the system was established they started pushing federal agencies to use them. Then in the ‘60’s when the digital revolution began it just made sense to use them. But the law has been changed since 1943. The new cards don’t even have that line on them anymore.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ssnreportc2.html